Frontier Communications fired sales executive Mitch Carmichael, a Republican who also serves as president of the West Virginia Senate, after he voted in favor of broadband legislation opposed by the company. The bill aimed to boost public broadband co-ops.  

Apple's new iOS 11 operating system will enable users to have more control over the way apps gather location data. The new system will give users the option of allowing apps to access location data only when the apps are in use.

Facebook’s Android app has been updated to support Android TV, 9To5Google reports. To be clear, “The application on your big screen won’t actually resemble the news feed found on the web or on your phone,” it writes. “What Facebook does bring to Android TV are all of the different videos that you see plastered around the social network.”

By the end of the year, Apple plans to let 400 or so third-party repair centers offer its special iPhone-glass-fixing machines. “Fixing cracked screens may seem like small potatoes, but it’s a multi-billion-dollar global business,” Reuters reports. “The move is also a major shift for Apple [as] the company had previously restricted use of its so-called Horizon Machine to its nearly 500 retail stores and mail-in repair centers.”

AdColony is rolling out what it’s calling Aurora HD interactive video ads. “Aurora is AdColony’s answer to the fast-growing ‘playable ads’ market, where users can tap on an ad and start playing a game or an app,” Venture Beat reports. “But AdColony’s solution promises to go beyond games to interactive ads that help brands get consumers more engaged in video and animated content.”

Mozilla and Etsy are among the tech companies taking on the FCC and its efforts to roll back Obama-era Web regulations. As The Washington Post reports: “On July 12, the companies and organizations are expected to change their websites to raise awareness of the FCC effort, which is aimed at deregulating the telecom and cable industries."

In the wake of the latest terror attacks in London, tech giants are pushing back against accusations that they facilitate such events. Specifically, Prime Minister Theresa May said social networks provide a “safe space" for terrorist ideology, BBC News reports. “But Google said it had already spent hundreds of millions of pounds on tackling the problem [while] Facebook and Twitter said they were working hard to rid their networks of terrorist activity and support.”

Apple will use artificial intelligence to prevent ad networks and other third parties from tracking Safari users. “Safari uses machine learning to identify trackers, segregate the cross-site scripting data, put it away so now your privacy -- your browsing history -- is your own,” company executive Craig Federighi said Monday.  

Advocacy group Free Press says the FCC is trying to stop people from expressing views about net neutrality. The agency prevented people from entering the March open meeting until they turned t-shirts they were wearing inside out, according to Free Press. The shirts said, "Protect Net Neutrality." “It is beyond ironic that the Federal Communications Commission -- the government agency charged with promoting First Amendment values -- seems intent on violating the First Amendment,” Free Press writes in a letter sent to the FCC on Monday.

Apple is reportedly losing Bozoma Saint John, head of global consumer marketing for Apple Music. The departure hurts for several reasons, according to Axios. For one, “While Apple has several women of color in higher-ranking positions, Saint John had a high profile beyond Apple,” it writes. “She was also fairly unique among Apple executives in maintaining a strong personal brand beyond her work identity.”